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Show Hflnw AlbaDunil; Hit? ncBwiDODniiatl; How should the city and the fire district resolve their dispute over the ownership owner-ship of the Deer Valley firefighting equipment? Michael Ballases , , ..AJf tya If they're going to use it as a separate entity from the city, then they should buy it. PageA2 Thursday, June 24, 1982 lEdlfittopirfiaill 1 1 t'"JS 7 rrmTmmmmim I n Clinic idea is tonic to County Hospital plans A politician, according to the humorous definition', is someone who rushes to the head of the charging crowd to lead it. In that sense, then, this is a political editorial, because we certainly aren't the first to say the Summit County Hospital in Coalville should be a clinic. The county's advisory board headed by State Rep. Glen Brown, made that recommendation recommen-dation last Tuesday. The board should be commended for making a decision that was practical, even while it was heartbreaking. Coalville residents on the board no doubt felt a sentimental attachment to the 40-year-old facility. But sentiment cannot ignore the facts. In a 14-bed facility, three or four beds are occupied on the average day. Under the management of Advanced Health Systems (AHS), the annual operating losses were roughly $500,000, according to a preliminary report by analysts from the Overthrust Industrial In-dustrial Association. The county hospital hasn't been fully used, largely because the area it's meant to serve has "leaks". Residents find it more convenient to travel out of Summit county to hospitals in Heber, Salt Lake, or Ogden. But if Coalville is the wrong site for a hospital, it is a vitally pivotal location for a clinic. Like Park City, it is just 9. fS5 far away enough from major cities to need emergency services; ser-vices; it is just close enough to major hospitals to move patients after they have received emergency treatment. As a clinic, the facility will not have to undertake the state-mandated repair of the surgical suite, estimated to cost over $100,000. This renovation was only necessary if the county wanted to continue the building as a hospital. In addition, a clinic won't need the same equipment as a hospital. This increases the chance Summit County can sell equipment back to Advanced Health, and thus reduce the capital investment debt it has to pay to AHS when the firm's contract ends on Aug. 2. There are questions still to be answered. Who would manage the clinic? Can it retain at least two physicians, which Rep. Brown said is an important need? How much hospital equipment should be retained for the clinic? Nevertheless, this option offers the least number of headaches to the county commission, which has said it will decide the hospital's future this week. Summit County government has already invested a year's worth of aspirin in considering the hospital, and a clinic offers the best way to relieve the pain. RB mT(XANllNMeY.TMW5WIRK0NV0l)RFfCE, YOU VOTED POVIN TV16 6Rf km DIDN'T YOU by Jack Anderson Weekly gpecnaH Israel may use Lebanese cutthroat to monitor invaded territory Washington Sooner or later, Israel will have to pull out of the Lebanese territory it has overrun in the past few weeks. World opinion will force the withdrawal. The big questions then are: Who will the Israelis turn the captured territory over to? Who will be their choice for an occupation force to keep Palestinian troops from moving back and once more threatening northern Israel? Unfortunately, the likeliest choice for this job seems to be a depraved Lebanese cutthroat, Major Saad Had-dad. Had-dad. He and his rightwing Christian soldiers have been on Israel's payroll for years. To Israel's shame, Haddad and his mercenary thugs have proven to be as dangerous to the United Nations peacekeeping force as they have to the Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas. In fact, Haddad's bloody record puts him on the same moral level as the PLO terrorists. Consider this shocking report from a secret State Department document on the plight of the United Nations troops in Lebanon: "The forces presently deployed have been subjected to numerous attacks by Haddad's forces since 1979, including at least 30 incidents inci-dents in which U.S. soldiers were killed." The secret report then cites a gruesome particular. "In one case, two Irish soldiers were tortured and shot in the presence of an American officer," the document states. Our sources say the American officer, an Armv major, was acting as an observer. He apparently blundered into the situation just as Haddad's troops captured the two Irish soldiers from the U.N. peacekeeping force. The American was restrained by Haddad's men while the two Irish soldiers were viciously tortured and shot. Haddad's hostility toward the U.N. troops may stem from his feeling that the U.N. forces have failed to keep PLO guerrillas from roaming at will throughout southern Lebanon. Both Haddad and the Israelis are known to consider the U.N. force sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. But this is a far cry from justifying the brutal murder of Irish, Dutch, French and other U.N. soldiers. These young men are in Lebanon trying to keep peace in a conflict they have no personal stake in. It's a dirty job, probably an impossible one. Just because they're not doing it successfully successful-ly is hardly a reason to murder them. Israel is not the only country that should be ashamed of Major Haddad's excesses. The United States didn't even lodge a protest over the senseless torture and murder of the two Irish soldiers, even though an American officer was an eyewitness. Instead, our government prefers to maintain the fiction that Israel has no control over the bloodthirsty Major Haddad. The Israeli invasion, meanwhile, caught the Reagan administration completely by surprise. It also embarrassed the president while he was on a European trip that was supposed to show our allies he was in control of events. What particularly irritates some of the administration's advisers is this: Israel clearly violated the Arms Export Control Act by using American-supplied American-supplied weapons in an aggressive attack. Some administration officials argue that Israel should be punished for this. The most severe punishment, of course, would be a halt in U.S. military aid to Israel. Other presidential advisers, we are told, are secretly pleased at the idea of a southern Lebanon free of the Palestine Liberation Organization. This would be a giant step forward for peace in the Middle East, some of the president's aides feel. But for obvious political reasons, the administration can't take this line publicly. What's next? : Weather modification used to be a fantasy of science fiction buffs, but it may soon become a useful reality. Rep. George Brown Jr., D-Calif., isspons6ring a bill that would establish a national program of research and development in weather modification. Two immediate goals: the provision of water for parched western states and the prevention of devastating floods. Public employees have been hard hit by President Reagan's budget cuts, but times will improve. Labor experts at Brigham Young University say they expect huge gains for government worker unions in the coming decade. The late successor to the late King Khalid of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Fahd, won't be on the throne too long. States a secret State Department report: "Fahd. . .has serious health problems. He is considerably overweight, over-weight, and appears at times to be unable to concentrate." The business community will make up the losses that President Reagan has cut out of educational programs. Bills now before Congress will allow companies to donate not only money, but also computers and machines to educational institutions in return for tax deductions. Barnev Saunders Live and let live. The city should cooperate and stand behind the district and the volunteers, and support them monetarily and otherwise. And knock off the bull over so-called philosophical dif- -1 Ay - George Painter Reassess priorities, and work with each other, as opposed to what's going on now, not forgetting why we're all here and what we're trying to accomplish. ValThurnell How many fire departments does a town usually have? I can't believe our much-maligned fire department would not have the complete support of both the townspeople and the government. 2 I 'i jL I ? ) i A I. I Missy Myers They're fighting over trivialities when they should be working on the quality of the firefighting system. The main issue should be fighting fires. by Stanley Karnow (BfldDlball Mew Reagan needs to recognize America's changing role Washington Over and over again in his campaign, President Reagan promised to rebuild America's global leadership. The crises of recent weeks suggest, however, that his administration ad-ministration has become almost irrelevant in international affairs. Much of this is not Reagan's fault. The world is going through a vast transformation trans-formation that is making it impossible im-possible for the United States to exercise exer-cise the predominant influence it wielded a generation ago. Among other things, America no longer can dictate to its allies as it did during the period following World War II, when they were reliant on U.S. aid for survivial. Since then, they have developed their own economic priorities and security imperatives, often of-ten in defiance of American interests. Nor is America always able to master its dependents, who have learned learn-ed to manipulate the United States in various ways, imposing on Washington what Secretary of State John Foster Dulles once called "the tyranny of the weak." But Reagan's problem, in my opinion, is that he seems to be oblivious to these changes. Instead, he continues to behave as if the sheer weight of his office is sufficient to control con-trol events. So, instead of restoring America's global leadership, he is creating a widening credibility gap between his oratorical claims to be strengthening the U.S. role abroad and his actual performance per-formance in the field of foreign policy. In other words, he appears to be dozing except when he has to deliver a speech before the television cameras. And even then, he projects the impression of having been programmed. The goofs of his administration, such as the public dispute between Secretary of State Haig and Ambassador Am-bassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick over the bungled United Nations vote, may not be important in themselves. But they dramatize the extent to which Reagan, who was unaware of the fiasco, is out in right field. What is more significant, however, is that he and his aides are racing to catch up with events for the simple reason, I think, that they have no overall concept that fits international realities. Reagan went to the economic summit sum-mit at Versailles earlier this month proclaiming that the meeting would have "historic" consequences. But apart from its pageantry, the extravagant ex-travagant gathering only served to reveal the deep differences that divide the United States and its allies on such issues as trade and monetary strategy. The presidential trip to Europe was eclipsed by the explosion in the Middle East another example of a devastating upheaval that might have been averted had the administration been strong and alert. As a Middle East expert here in Washington put it the other day, Israel's invasion of Lebanon was "a war waiting to happen." But the administration, ad-ministration, armed with intelligence on Israeli deployments, did nothing to stop it. The pattern of U.S. passivity is not new. The administration did nothing a year ago when the Israelis bombed an Iraqi nuclear reactor. It reacted feebly when the Israelis bombed Beirut soon after that, and its response to Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights last December was equally bland. On the face of it, this passivity would seem to indicate that the administration ad-ministration was secretly colluding with the Israelis in their drive into Lebanon. In fact, I gather, administration ad-ministration specialists were not paying close attention to the growing danger. However the crisis evolves, the balance of power in the Middle East is shifting drastically and probably not to America's advantage. The Israelis have crushed the Palestine Liberation Organization as a military force. But a more radical Palestinian movement is bound to re-emerge, re-emerge, perhaps helped by the Ayatollah Khomeini's fanatical Iranians, to threaten moderate Arab states like Saudi Arabia and Jordan. The U.S. failure to prevent the crisis stems largely from the administration's ad-ministration's consistent mispercep-tion mispercep-tion of the Middle East as an arena of Soviet-American rivalry rather than as a cockput of regional tensions. Thus the United States, having demonstrated its lack of realism toward the area, will be less and less able to exert leverage in the Middle East and that augurs a gain for the Russians. Similarly, the administration missed an opportunity to intervene diplomatically to prevent the Falklands conflict, whose imminence it knew in advance. The long-term result of that inaction almost certainly will be the decline of U.S. influence in Latin America. The sad irony in all this is that Reagan, with his conservative credentials, creden-tials, could have promoted a vigorous and flexible foreign policy without fear of a right-wing backlash as Richard Nixon did. But then, it may be too much to expect Hollywood to produce a statesman. (01982 The Register and Tribune Syndicate Inc. Mewspaper Subscription Rales, $6 a year in Summit County, $12 a year outside Summit County Published by Ink, Inc. USPS 378-730 Publisher Mi.or JmWilkinX , . . "" David Hampshire ;s:r t;:::::::::::::::::::: Jan u . ( ruuhics ' RickLanman ' ... u " i Beckj' WWenhouse, Liz Heimos rlpeseninT" Be"in" MenCh' B'a' MorR1,n Queal ' . . 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